CCA Asks FCC to Reconsider AT&T/FiberTower Decision
The FCC should reverse a Wireless Bureau consent order approving the AT&T/FiberTower deal and auction FiberTower’s terminated licenses, the Competitive Carriers Association said. “The Bureau did not conduct a meaningful analysis of the AT&T/FiberTower Transaction’s competitive impact or public interest…
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benefits, and CCA strongly encourages the Commission to instead auction the valuable spectrum,” said CCA President Steve Berry in a news release. “AT&T fails to provide an adequate defense of the Bureau’s decision and wrongly suggests the public will benefit from the Transaction. Allowing one of the nation’s largest carriers to gain an enormous swath of valuable spectrum resources causes a real threat of additional spectrum aggregation to the detriment of American taxpayers, competition, and the overall economy.” The bureau authorized AT&T to take control of 39 GHz licenses as part of its buy of FiberTower in February (see 1802080055). The FCC and AT&T didn't comment.